unquestioned

Definitions

UnquestionedIndisputable; not to be opposed or impugned."Their unquestioned pleasures must be served."

UnquestionedNot called in question; not doubted.

UnquestionedNot interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined or examined into."She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant,
Through the divided crowd unquestioned went."

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

unquestionedNot called in question; not doubted.

unquestionedNot interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined; not examined into.

unquestionedNot to be opposed or disputed.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

adjUnquestionednot called in question, undoubted, not examined, indisputable

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Usage

In literature:

I was ready to be her slave with blind, unquestioning obedience.

"The Passenger from Calais" by Arthur Griffiths

She obeyed him mutely, with a submission as unquestioning as that of the rough crowd in front of them.

"The Odds" by Ethel M. Dell

Something happens to the bright, sweet unquestioned faith.

"The Girl and Her Religion" by Margaret Slattery

They admired the same china and the same people, with unquestioning unanimity.

"The Lee Shore" by Rose Macaulay

That were a strange way of setting to work, Why, I may come and go unquestioned.

"The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn" by Evelyn Everett-Green

In virtue of natural kingship he took up his sceptre unquestioned.

"Life of Charles Dickens" by Frank Marzials

I tell you we have, and always had, the unquestioned right to its proper use.

"The Cross and the Shamrock" by Hugh Quigley

Unquestioned was its hold on the faith of men, women, and children.

""Over There" with the Australians" by R. Hugh Knyvett

As long as Mohammed lived, this state of things remained unquestioned, and difficulties began only at his death.

"The Future of Islam" by Wilfred Scawen Blunt

She entered the city unquestioned.

"The Adventures of Kathlyn" by Harold MacGrath

Grammar alone remains in quiet possession of its unquestioned authority.

"Lectures on Language" by William S. Balch

Others might not see this as I do, nor have such unquestioning faith in you.

"Bob Hampton of Placer" by Randall Parrish

In addition to his affection for him, he had always had an unquestioning confidence in his father.

"David Harum" by Edward Noyes Westcott

A universally respected man of unquestioned integrity and decided importance.

"The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow" by Anna Katharine Green

She was a woman of unquestioned excellence of character, and of a large landed estate.

"Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II" by Charles Upham

The prodigal had made his peace with Anne, and came and went unquestioned.

"The Helpmate" by May Sinclair

How unquestioning had been her faith in him!

"Contrary Mary" by Temple Bailey

Indeed, it is not strictly military to think; implicit and unquestioning obedience is the law.

"Continental Monthly, Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864" by Various

For it loves mediocrity, it likes to be accepted unquestioningly as was the Old Testament.

"The Loom of Youth" by Alec Waugh

The German Empire had a most unquestioned right thus to challenge the power of Great Britain.

"The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915" by Various

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In poetry:

The deities dread!
The mastery hold they
In hands all-eternal,
And use them, unquestioned,
What manner they like.

"From Iphigenia In Tauris" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But, Oh! myself I wretchedly deceiv'd,
Fondly presuming I shou'd never die,
Or if I died, I foolishly believ'd,
That in the grave I shou'd unquestion'd lie!

"The Complaint And The Advice Of Dives, To His Five Brethren (Part 1)" by Rees Prichard

I see them swing their way from port to port
Unquestioning across the trackless sea,
And their majestic passing hath import
Full strange and whispering eternity.

"Summer Sea" by Robert Steel Byrnes

Hail—glory of Albion! ye fleets and ye hosts
I breathe not the tones of dismay:
In valour unquestioned, still cover your coasts,
But may Heav'n keep the slaughter away.

"To The British Channel" by Robert Bloomfield

The reptile, whom thy beauties raise,
Has an unquestion'd claim to praise,
That justice will confirm!
The Muses, with a graceful pride,
May turn from thankless man aside,
To celebrate a worm!

"The Grateful Snake" by William Hayley

Go, life, since go you must,
Uncertain guest and whimsical ally!
All questionless you came, unquestioned go;
What does it mean to live, or what to die?
Smiling we watch you vanish, for we know
Somewhere is nobler living--by and by.

"A Farewell" by Susan Coolidge

In news:

Unquestioned by the news media, President Obama has somehow managed to convince much of the country that the federal government and the American economy are one and the same.

For decades it mostly went unquestioned: Women without symptoms were advised to undergo routine mammograms to assure they were cancer-free, with the idea that detection of early-stage breast cancer would increase their chances of survival.

Tina Rosenberg, in her analysis of Latin American media (Editorial Observer, May 7) concludes that "the market has more often produced media that unquestioningly support the powerful in society, failing the public they are supposed to serve".

In science:

In order to develop our arguments, we will adopt two methodological hypotheses which are unquestioningly accepted in present-day cosmology: 1.- The laws of physics are always and everywhere the same. 2.- The universe is unique: disconnected universes are not considered.

The cosmological origin of time-asymmetry

It would therefore be premature to conclude that the neutrino-driven mechanism fails and that not even postshock convection can alter this unquestioned outcome of all current spherical models.

One might say that a particular engineering paradigm existed in Formula 1, unquestioned, until the late 1960s, when the amount of suggestive empirical data built to such an extent that a revolution was unavoidable.

Explanation and discovery in aerodynamics

Behind these word-symbols stands a programme, which has gained unquestioned standing with the development of physical thinking until the establishment of the quantum theory.

Elementary Considerations on the Interpretation of the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

If its authority is unquestioned, then remarks about the positive consequences of its implementation are nice but cannot replace the appeal to the authoritative claim.

Interest prohibition and financial product innovation

Of course the local equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass, which is the essentials of Einstein’ legacy, remains unquestioned.

Spooky black holes : gravitational self energy and space curvature

Shannon’s implicit assumption— that this information entropy is the same as the entropy that is used in thermodynamics and in statistical mechanics—has generally been accepted unquestioned, and the formula has been used without modiﬁcation in the physical sciences.

Is the Information Entropy the Same as the Statistical Mechanical Entropy?